Resources and Population brings together two important themes in Grade 6 science: the resources organisms need to survive and the relationship between living populations and their environment. This mini book set provides a focused resource for introducing or revisiting population and resource concepts within middle school life science.

Explore the connection between resources and populations

Resources play an important role in the survival of organisms and the conditions in which populations exist. Connecting these ideas gives students an opportunity to consider how living things depend on available resources and how resource availability relates to populations within an ecosystem.

By presenting resources and population as connected science topics, this set offers a starting point for classroom discussions about ecological relationships, organism needs and the factors that influence living populations.

What is included?

The product is a Resources and Population Mini Book Set, designed around its two named science topics. The supplied resource details identify the mini book format but do not specify individual page contents, question types, diagrams, tables, worksheets, answer keys or teacher notes. Please refer to the product preview for the exact printable contents before purchasing.

Ways to use the mini book set in Grade 6

• Introduce resources and population as connected topics during a middle school science unit.
• Use the mini book format as a focused addition to a lesson on living organisms and their environment.
• Include the resource in a science learning sequence when discussing how resource availability relates to populations.
• Provide a printable topic resource for individual classroom learning or science review.

Curriculum context

The supplied curriculum reference identifies the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), 2013, and lists performance expectation MS-LS2-1. This standard focuses on analysing and interpreting data to provide evidence about the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations in an ecosystem. The standard is included as a supplied curriculum reference; the specific activities and evidence in the mini books should be checked in the preview before making an alignment decision.

A focused addition to your science resources

For Grade 6 teachers covering population and resource relationships, this printable mini book set offers a topic-specific addition to a life science resource collection. Its two central themes provide a useful starting point for exploring how organisms interact with the resources available in their environment, while keeping the classroom focus on an important area of middle school ecology.